Linux Grabs More Than 2% of Desktop Market Share

is another example of the kind of dubious stats I was referring to. You?ll notice it has Android well behind IOS, at 17% versus 23%. This simply does not make sense.
i often get access to a customers web analytics or i get employed to set up on behalf. the way this information is presented makes it useless. web analytics is really fun and interesting because you get to see the country of origin, time of day, page click through etc. for example im still seeing large numbers of visits from ie6 on windows xp from china. there are so many variables all i can really add is that The Register is reporting on the number of perceived unique visitors to their web site, not the rise or fall of desktop software brands as they claim. -- Kind Regards Rowan Schischka

On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 16:13:50 +1200, rowan schischka wrote:
... all i can really add is that The Register is reporting on the number of perceived unique visitors to their web site, not the rise or fall of desktop software brands as they claim.
These stats are from Netmarketshare and Statcounter, not from The Register itself. IT sites regularly feature higher frequencies of visitors using non-Windows platforms, e.g. this <http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2004/09/4244-2/> from Ars Technica would likely still be not too far off current platform share.
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